- 'Free'
AIDS drug still not available [24-08-2001]
- The Department of Health has
still not tied up an agreement with drug manufacturer
Boehringer Ingelheim, which would ensure the free supply of
its anti-AIDS drug, nevirapine, to South Africa and all other
SADC countries for five years.
- The Department of Health has
still not tied up an agreement with drug manufacturer
Boehringer Ingelheim, which would ensure the free supply of
its anti-AIDS drug, nevirapine, to South Africa and all other
SADC countries for five years.
- AIDS
orphans sketch their worlds [24-08-2001]
- Ninety children, in one way or
another severely and personally affected by the AIDS epidemic,
made their voices heard this week by sharing their stories of
grief, hope, sadness and pain with adults.
- Ninety children, in one way or
another severely and personally affected by the AIDS epidemic,
made their voices heard this week by sharing their stories of
grief, hope, sadness and pain with adults.
What
MTCT means to mothers
Living with AIDS programme 45 [23-08-2001]- As the Treatment Action Campaign
lodged papers in the Pretoria High court in a bid to compel
the government to implement a national programme to prevent
the mother to child transmission of HIV, two mothers spoke out
about their experience of pregnancy. One did not know her HIV
status and gave birth to a daughter who was HIV+ and died nine
months later. The other was reached by the MTCT programme in
Khayelitsha and has a healthy, happy two year old.
- As the Treatment Action Campaign
lodged papers in the Pretoria High court in a bid to compel
the government to implement a national programme to prevent
the mother to child transmission of HIV, two mothers spoke out
about their experience of pregnancy. One did not know her HIV
status and gave birth to a daughter who was HIV+ and died nine
months later. The other was reached by the MTCT programme in
Khayelitsha and has a healthy, happy two year old.
- Mother-to-child
HIV prevention - the science, the costs, & the pilot programme
[22-08-2001]
- The Treatment Action Campaign's
decision to turn to the courts comes after four years of
campaigning for a national programme to prevent mother to
child transmission (MTCT).
- The Treatment Action Campaign's
decision to turn to the courts comes after four years of
campaigning for a national programme to prevent mother to
child transmission (MTCT).
- Appeals
ignored - TAC takes government to court [22-08-2001]
- After four years of calling for
a comprehensive programme to prevent the mother to child
transmission of HIV, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) will
take the Minister of Health and all nine MEC's for health to
court in an attempt to ensure that a national plan is
implemented.
- After four years of calling for
a comprehensive programme to prevent the mother to child
transmission of HIV, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) will
take the Minister of Health and all nine MEC's for health to
court in an attempt to ensure that a national plan is
implemented.
- AIDS
orphans meet to voice their needs [21-08-2001]
- Five AIDS orphans from Ingwavuma
in northern KwaZulu-Natal are to be part of a national meeting
in Cape Town aimed at giving children affected by HIV/AIDS the
opportunity to explain how they would like to be helped.
- Five AIDS orphans from Ingwavuma
in northern KwaZulu-Natal are to be part of a national meeting
in Cape Town aimed at giving children affected by HIV/AIDS the
opportunity to explain how they would like to be helped.
- HIV
does cause AIDS - Makgoba [17-08-2001]
- An interview in Sesotho and
English with the head of the Medical Research Council, Prof
Malegapuru Makgoba. He explains that HIV is the only cause of
AIDS. Poverty can only exacerbate the impact of the virus.
- An interview in Sesotho and
English with the head of the Medical Research Council, Prof
Malegapuru Makgoba. He explains that HIV is the only cause of
AIDS. Poverty can only exacerbate the impact of the virus.
- HIV/AIDS
is a "tax" [13-08-2001]
- Business should view HIV/AIDS as
a tax which could add 7-8% to the cost of doing business, and
work to minimise exposure to this "tax". This is
according to Professor Alan Whiteside, director of the Health
Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division of the University of
Natal.
- Business should view HIV/AIDS as
a tax which could add 7-8% to the cost of doing business, and
work to minimise exposure to this "tax". This is
according to Professor Alan Whiteside, director of the Health
Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division of the University of
Natal.
- Pilot
encourages people to take HIV test [03-08-2001]
- A two-year pilot project aimed
at encouraging hospital and clinic patients to go for HIV
tests has managed to almost triple the demand for tests at the
four test sites.
- A two-year pilot project aimed
at encouraging hospital and clinic patients to go for HIV
tests has managed to almost triple the demand for tests at the
four test sites.
- Big
plans for mother-to-child HIV prevention in W.Cape [03-08-2001]
- Around 90% of HIV positive pregnant women in the Western Cape should have access to anti-AIDS drugs to prevent them transmitting the virus to their babies by early next year. The Cape Town Unicity and provincial government have agreed to make funds available to extend the prevention programme to a further nine sites by April next year.
Source: www.health-e.org.za